Lecture 2 - geo-histo relation people + food

Question 1

(lec 1 review) CAS?

Answer 1

complex adaptive system (food systems)

Question 2

farming was a punishment for…

Answer 2

Prometheus stealing fire (no farming in Eden)

Question 2

Neolithic is when _ becomes _

Answer 2

chiefdom becomes civilization

Question 2

when Greek & Rome cultivated their hinterlands w. slaves there were the very first ……

Answer 2

food miles

Question 2

1st Agro Revo

Answer 2

permanent arable fields -manure -augmented w. swidden (fire)

Question 2

neolithic - Greek & Rome does what?

Answer 2

hinterlands cultivated w. slaves

Question 3

How were Greek & Roman tolls paid?

Answer 3

food

Question 4

2nd Agro Revo

Answer 4

-high farming methods -chemical fertilizer -steam engine -pop growth -BARB WIRE -ENCLOSURE (5200 cases)

Question 5

2nd revo - in the manorial system the commons were …

Answer 5

enclosed

Question 6

2nd revo - Enclosure =

Answer 6

1. concentration of ownership 2. deprivation of commoners (no land, become poor people) - cities become slums

Question 7

2nd revo (especially) - David Harvey

Answer 7

Accumulation by Dispossession

Question 8

2nd revo - food cost kept down for sake of …

Answer 8

keeping wages low

Question 9

2nd revo - high farming methods =

Answer 9

rift between peasants & tech farmers (eventually, industrial)

Question 10

2nd revo - the capitalist turn?

Answer 10

enclosure + technology & accumulation of WEALTH

Question 11

Political Economy (4 points) =

Answer 11

1. players 2. practices 3. economics 4. powers & interests

Question 12

“food regime” creators

Answer 12

Harriet Friedman & Philip McMichael

Question 13

1. food regime

Answer 13

enclosure

Question 14

2. food regime

Answer 14

50-70 / capitalist / ww1-2 / cold war / ENVIRO CRISIS / DUST BOWL / DEPLETION = trigger to change / food aid / cold war boundaries / enclosure of tradtitions / agrobusiness /

Question 15

3. food regime

Answer 15

Starts with 72-73 oil crisis / but Green Revo also addressing “dust bowl” and soil depletion

Question 16

tropical & temperate foods joined in …

Answer 16

food flows

Question 17

2ns and 3rd food regimes’ relationship to war?

Answer 17

DDT -> weapon & pesticide … salt peter = gunpowder and fertilizer

Question 18

not political economy but …

Answer 18

political ecology

Question 19

The 3RD Agro Revo =

Answer 19

Green revo / tech transfer / results in GN controlling GS / monocrops